Building First Course - A Couple of Questions

Hi, James:

If you click on "slide properties" in your ribbon up top, you'll see on the far right options for slide advance. If you select "automatically," the slide will automatically advance. If you choose "by user," the user will need to push the play button. Don't keep slide properties open more than a few minutes -- if you do, your system may freeze up. Big time sucker, I learned the hard way.

Not totally sure about second question, but when you create and add an interaction to your course, it will show up in the course menu and viewers can click on it, if they want to go back to it. --Daniel

Hi James. You can have someone go to whatever you slide you would like by setting up branching. The limitation is that the Next button would always take you to the branched slide, you can't choose to not branch back to the main slide.

Hi Daniel and Justin. Thanks so much for your help - much appreciated. I will try those out. 

Justin - I have built a menu with hyperlinks, as I am trying to avoid using the navigation buttons on the player. Do you know if there is a way of someone being taken directly from a Quizmaker quiz or Engage interaction to a Presenter slide? So, for example, if someone finishes a quiz, how can they go to a branched slide without using the 'next' button? Is this possible, do you know? Thank you!

Daniel - Thanks again for your help. I have made sure that the relevant slides are set to "automatically" in the slide properties. However, this is still not working as expected. 

On each of these slides, there are animations run that about 16 seconds, which is confirmed when I preview the slide. In PowerPoint I have set the 'Advance Slide' property to automatically after 18 seconds. However, when I preview the slide, it has a run time of 25 seconds. Essentially, after the last animation, there is about 9 seconds of 'dead air' before it moves onto the next slide. 

I have no idea where this 25 seconds is being set, and why it is being set like that? The only thing I can think of it is that some of the animations run simultaneously, so Articulate taking the TOTAL amount of seconds and using this as the default run time.

Any ideas anyone how to get around this? I am just looking to have a nice seamless intro section that plays automatically before leading learners into a main menu. (Many thanks.)

Hi James.

You can branch your quiz to a specific slide in the Quiz Properties section here.

Regarding the timing, it's possible you had audio on that slide that was 25 seconds at some point. Try copying the contents of the slide you are having an issue with to a new slide and republish and see if the timing is correct on that slide.

Thank you for that, Justin. All grand with Quizmaker. No, no audio on the slides, just animation. Have tired to republishing thing and that didn't work. I will keep playing about with it. 

Many thanks for you help! 

Hi James.

Feel free to send us your project files if you want us to take a closer look.